The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century EnglandPenguin, 6 mai 2008 - 592 pages The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents. "To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes in this brilliant book. The Verney family's centuries-long practice of saving every piece of paper that came into their possession -- amassing some 100,000 pages of family and estate letters and documents -- resulted in the largest and most complete private collection of seventeenth-century correspondence in the Western world to date. They paint an incredibly accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies, through the everyday lives of one extraordinary family. |
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... refused to accept the Catholic faith . Ironically , Francis's Protestant family back in England would have regarded his conversion to Catholicism as barely preferable to Islam . A free man in Sicily , but with no money , no friends , no ...
... refused to accept the Catholic faith . Ironically , Francis's Protestant family back in England would have regarded his conversion to Catholicism as barely preferable to Islam . A free man in Sicily , but with no money , no friends , no ...
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... refused to accept the Catholic faith. Whatever the reason, Sir Edmund was back in England by the autumn of 1611, leaving behind the luxurious mansion by the Prado — "the fairest and pleasantest house in Madrid" — where the embassy had ...
... refused to accept the Catholic faith. Whatever the reason, Sir Edmund was back in England by the autumn of 1611, leaving behind the luxurious mansion by the Prado — "the fairest and pleasantest house in Madrid" — where the embassy had ...
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... adolescence . When he was created Prince of Wales in No- vember 1616 , a few days before his sixteenth birthday , his mother refused to attend because she couldn't bear the way in which the [ 36 ] PART I. Edmund and Ralph.
... adolescence . When he was created Prince of Wales in No- vember 1616 , a few days before his sixteenth birthday , his mother refused to attend because she couldn't bear the way in which the [ 36 ] PART I. Edmund and Ralph.
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... refused to give his approval for the marriage and complained directly to the Court of Wards — with dramatic results. The Lybbes were immediately commanded by the king, "all excuses and delays set apart," to surrender Mary to Sir John ...
... refused to give his approval for the marriage and complained directly to the Court of Wards — with dramatic results. The Lybbes were immediately commanded by the king, "all excuses and delays set apart," to surrender Mary to Sir John ...
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Table des matières
1 | |
A Little Fading Honor | 95 |
The Best of Men | 118 |
Fortunes Wheel Is Ever Turning | 137 |
This World Is Full of Changes | 157 |
IO A Strange Cruelty | 205 |
Mischief | 231 |
Oh My My Dear Dear | 253 |
All the Physic in the World | 355 |
She Doth Not Rave | 379 |
The Levant Trader | 396 |
Natural Bias | 421 |
Good Husbandry | 446 |
Without Escutcheons | 466 |
He Grows Weary | 490 |
Acknowledgments | 511 |
Giro dItalia | 273 |
None but Princes | 299 |
Mend Me or End Me | 319 |
Perfect Empress of My Heart | 336 |
Bibliography | 545 |
Index | 557 |
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